HMS Panther was a 60-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy , launched on 22 June 1758 at Chatham Dockyard .[ 1]
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History
Great Britain
Name HMS Panther
Ordered 25 May 1756
Builder Martin and Henniker, Chatham
Laid down June 1756
Launched 22 June 1758
Commissioned 3 September 1758
In service
1758–1765
1771–1774
1777–1783
1807–1813
Fate Broken up at Portsmouth Dockyard , November 1813
General characteristics
Class & type Edgar -class ship of the line
Tons burthen 128559 ⁄ 94 bm
Length
154 ft 0 in (46.94 m) (gundeck)
127 ft 0 in (38.71 m) (keel )
Beam 43 ft 7 in (13.28 m)
Depth of hold 18 ft 4 in (5.59 m)
Sail plan Full-rigged ship
Complement 420
Armament
60 guns:
Gundeck: 24 × 24 pdrs
Upper gundeck: 26 × 12 pdrs
Quarterdeck: 8 × 6 pdrs
Forecastle: 2 × 6 pdrs
Close
She served during the Seven Years' War , sailing for the far east to take part in the expedition against Manila . On 31 October 1761 Panther and the Coventry -class 24-gun sixth-rate Argo captured the Spanish galleon Spanish ship Santísima Trinidad in a two-hour action, loaded with cargo valued at $1.5 million.[ 2]
Panther was fitted as a prison hulk at Plymouth Dockyard from 1807, and was broken up in 1813.[ 1]
Plan of the attack against Fort Louis (now Fort George), at Point à Pitre , Guadeloupe by a squadron, detached from Commodore Moore and commanded by Captain Wm. Harman of HMS Berwick on 14 February 1759. Showing Panther
Battle of the Dutch ship Mars , against the English warships Monarch , Panther and Sybille (near Sint Eustatius Island, in the action of 4 February 1781